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I've been in some rather deep discussions on Enterprise features, so I thought I would share some findings on what they are, where they are, and what they do. First, there are three different Enterprise features that can be enabled within a farm. They
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While developing a custom feature receiver, I was attempting to delete a masterpage file from the MasterPage Gallery when I received an SPException with the message: " Cannot remove file "<filename>". Error Code 158 " Since I found no help on the
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Using PowerShell to support SharePoint has saved me quite a bit of time. I can do just about everything I would do in .NET, only without firing up Visual Studio just to check a property of a SPWeb object. I have compiled a collection of PowerShell functions
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We've all struggled with using VPCs for our SharePoint development. Thanks to Bamboo Solutions , we can now install WSS and MOSS on our host laptops running under Vista. Check out this page for steps on how to complete this. Downloads SQL Server Express
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I talk to many developers who are still using "xcopy" to deploy some of their SharePoint files to the 12 Hive (especially trust files and custom stsadm commands). It is well known that the manifest.xml file within a WSP can be configured to deploy assemblies
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Let's say you upgrade WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 and you've just installed MOSS 2007. You are now trying to create a new Shared Services Provider, but you immediately receive warnings at the top: No indexers To resolve this, you need to configure your search
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How to add the PeopleEditor (People Picker) control to your custom application development (ASPX, user controls, web parts, etc.) The control we are interested in is the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.PeopleEditor control. First, we need to add a reference
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Sometimes it is required to remove all ToolParts from your web part to prevent any customization from users. To do this, you must inherit your web part from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPart.WebPartPages.WebPart ( not System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart)
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MOSS Automated Build & Deploy with MSBuild Here are the steps to create an MSBuild script to: 1. Label Visual Source Safe project with a new version 2. Get latest source code to a build server 3. Compile source code 4. Look for .DDF files 5. Build
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This has come up several times now and I thought I would contribute a solution that has worked for me. The problem: Need to create an Audience based on a profile of a SharePoint user. The users is, however, stored in a SQL Server membership database (outside
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